Quotations (10)

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Only 2 quotes in goodread this morning. More herein: Twinkle would get some discipline tonight: no Fig Newton with his Purina. === “I want you to accept my condolences on the death of Howard Longstreet. He was a superb intelligence…
“What exactly do you hope to find? Hoping she’ll speak to you from the Wanagi Tacanku?” === Sherlock Holmes used the process of induction — not deduction. ” === “That’s Saint Jude Thaddeus,” the woman said. Pendergast turned it over in his…
Jenny had wandered through her share of trendy neighborhoods — the Lower East Side, the Mission, LA’s Venice and Silver Lake — but she’d never before experienced such a motley assortment of hipsters, punks, cybergoths, gang-bangers,…
“Parking ticket? What are you talking about? ” “Because you’ve got fine written all over you!” === Joseph, legendary leader of the Nez Percé: White men have too many chiefs. === No civilized person should have to set foot willingly in…
“When one detonates a nuclear bomb,” Pendergast said, “the shadows left behind on the walls are rarely able to protest.” === Funny how cops always seemed to prefer comfort food when they went off shift — just like they seemed to prefer…
As a child , before the Death and the Journey , he had read and loved the little books about Archy and Mehitabel , their humorous verses and stories — Archy , a free - verse poet who’d been reincarnated as a cockroach , and Mehitabel , a…
Growing up in South Dakota, Coldmoon had loved the hot, dry summers. But Miami was a different beast entirely. Here it was, just turning April, and already every day seemed hotter than the last. It was so damn humid that your body, in a…
Florida, he’d learned that it seemed to have four distinct habitats: coastal boulevards for the über - rich; gated subdivisions for affluent retirees; bleak neighborhoods out of Grand Theft Auto — and swamp. === How the hell did these…
“Yeah. But did you ever see the movie Deliverance? ” “No. ” “Well, all I can say is, if I start hearing any banjos, I’m turning the hell around.” === “After you, kemosabe.” === I’ve never driven a boat before. My preferred mode of travel…
In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, and ate of it. Said, “Is it good, friend?” “It is bitter — bitter,” he answered; “But I like it “Because it is bitter, “And…